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Cambodia's king has pardoned a Thai man jailed for seven years for spying on Thai ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, a Cambodian government spokesman says. | Cambodia's king has pardoned a Thai man jailed for seven years for spying on Thai ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, a Cambodian government spokesman says. |
Siwarak Chothipong, 31, was accused of passing Mr Thaksin's private flight details to Thai diplomats while the former PM was on a visit to Cambodia. | Siwarak Chothipong, 31, was accused of passing Mr Thaksin's private flight details to Thai diplomats while the former PM was on a visit to Cambodia. |
Relations between the two nations have been tense since Mr Thaksin was named an economic adviser to Cambodia. | Relations between the two nations have been tense since Mr Thaksin was named an economic adviser to Cambodia. |
He is wanted in Thailand to serve a prison sentence for corruption. | He is wanted in Thailand to serve a prison sentence for corruption. |
A government spokesman said Siwarak, an air traffic controller, would be released on Monday to his family and a delegation from Thailand's main opposition party, the AFP news agency reports. | |
At Sirawak's sentencing earlier this week, the judge said he had breached security by leaking the details of Mr Thaksin's private flights while Mr Thaksin was a guest of the government. | |
But the seven-year sentence was actually the lightest possible for spying. The maximum would have been 15. |